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Jim McNeely/Frankfurt Radio Big Band: Rituals
by Jack Bowers
The first thirty-three minutes or so of Rituals, the latest album by the excellent Frankfurt Radio (hr) Big Band, is an homage to Igor Stravinsky's symphonic suite The Rite of Spring, which premiered in Paris in 1913, reimagined “in the Stravinsky spirit" by the group's director, Jim McNeely, in a big-band framework and featuring the acclaimed ...
Jussi Reijonen: Three Seconds | Kolme Toista
by Karl Ackermann
East/West jazz fusion has a long presence on the U.S. jazz scene and that foothold has been growing in the 2000s. Composer/guitarist/oud player Jussi Reijonen is uniquely qualified to bridge musical cultures. Nordic by birth, he has lived in the Middle East, Africa, and the U.S., absorbing native music at each stop. Reijonen's solo debut, Un ...
Eric Vloeimans & Will Holshouser: Two For The Road-
by Pierre Giroux
The trumpet and the accordion may seem like an incompatible musical combination, and perhaps that may be so, except in the hands of Dutch trumpeter Eric Vloeimans and American accordionist Will Holshouser. Their dynamic and demonstrative interaction is on full display in this live concert recorded during a tour of the Netherlands in 2021 and is ...
Patty Lomuscio: Star Crossed Lovers
by Paul Beard
The Italian singer Patty Lomuscio had long dreamed of making an album in New York with pianist Kenny Barron. Now she has done so. Alongside Barron is drummer Joe Farnsworth, bassist Peter Washington and Vincent Herring on alto saxophone. The title track, comes across really well. Lomuscio's talents start to shine through and then ...
Lynne Arriale Trio: The Lights Are Always On
by Jack Bowers
Music with “a message" need not be inscrutable or bombastic, as pianist/composer Lynne Arriale proves time and again on The Lights Are Always On, whose ten original Arriale compositions are dedicated to caregivers, healers, truth-tellers and defenders of democracy in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic and the brazen hoax-fueled attack on the U.S. Capitol building ...
The Lights Are Always On
Album: The Lights Are Always On
By Lynne Arriale
Label: Challenge Records
Released: 2022
Duration: 3:23
Under The Surface: Miin Triuwa
by Ian Patterson
Under The Surface goes Dutch on Miin Triuwa. Well, Old Dutch, to be precise, as it is the language of The Netherlands' early medieval period that provides the grist to singer Sanne Rambags' poetic mill. It is a concept as unexpected as it is original, but three albums into its fascinating journey, the trio co-founded by ...
The Song Is You
Label: Challenge Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: 1. IF YOU COULD SEE ME NOW (T. Dameron/C. Sigman) 2. UP JUMPED SPRING (F. Hubbard/A. Lincoln)
3. MY FOOLISH HEART (V. Young/N. Washington)
4. FIVE WILD GEESE (Lilly/Lilly)
5. PRELUDE TO A KISS (D. Ellington)
6. IT MIGHT AS WELL BE SPRING (R.Rodgers/O. Hammerstein)
7. SCARBOROUGH FAIR (trad.)
8.LONELY WOMAN (H. Silver/L. Feather)
9. THAT OLD FEELING (S. Fain/L. Brown)
10. THE SONG IS YOU (J. Kern/O. Hammerstein)
The Bari Session
By Paul Wertico
Label: Challenge Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Circular Motion; Toms For Talia; Cowboys & Africans; It Seemed That Life Was So
Wonderful; Train Bossa; What Would The World Be; Tuning Song
Chapter One
Label: Challenge Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Just One of Those Things; The More I See You; Looking for a Boy; Someone to Watch
Over Me; Let’s Face the Music and Dance; Everything I’ve Got Belongs to You; Stardust; I
Get a Kick Out of You; But Not for Me; Get Out of Town; Taking a Chance on Love; Things
Are Looking Up; It Had to Be You; With a Song in My Heart.
